(Radio France) French anti-terrorist police have detained eight people in connection with an investigation into a terrorist financing network in Syria.
Six men were arrested in a raid in several parts of Strasbourg, in Eastern France, Tuesday morning. Another man was arrested at dawn in central Clermont-Ferrand. They will be transferred and questioned at the headquarters of the DGSI, France’s security agency, in Paris.
An eighth person answered a summons, and voluntarily went to the DGSI for questioning.
Six of the men, aged 28 to 48, are Russian, another is Georgian. According to sources close to the investigation, some are connected to the Chechen community.
